Report: Missing boy's dad wishes alleged plot had worked
PORTLAND, Ore. - Kaine Horman, the father of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman, said he wishes his estranged wife's alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill him had been successful, he told the Willamette Week newspaper.
Although Terri Moulton Horman has not been named a suspect by police in the disappearance of the boy, both Kaine Horman and his ex-wife, Desiree Young, have said they suspect her of having something to do with their son's disappearance. Both were interviewed by Willamette Week.
Kaine Horman commented on the alleged plot when the paper asked him how he felt knowing he was the one who had rought Terri Horman into the family.
"I feel responsible. I feel guilty," he said. "It's my job to protect him. It's my job to be there for him. I was there for him and someone got past and got him on my watch. I'm very upset about it. I'm very emotional about it. It's not right. It shouldn't have happened. We all trusted her. I feel partly responsible.
"In a weird way, I almost wish that her plot that she originally put in place would have gone through, because he would still be here."
The mentioned plot was laid out in divorce documents in which Kaine Horman claims detectives told him his wife tried to hire a landscaper to kill him. The alleged plot was the basis of the restraining order that he obtained against his wife.
He also told the paper that he lives every day with the guilt over having failed to protect his son.
"I'm not saying I feel directly responsible for it, but I feel really guilty about it," he said. "And I wish there was anything I could do to change places with him in any way, shape or form."
Kaine Horman said he's trying to turn that guilt into fuel to help find his son.
"I would do anything. I would give anything, and I always would. Up to this point, I have always been there in that capacity.
"Anything bad that happens to him, I wish I could shoulder it for him, (that) I could take it away from him. I wish it would come to me instead of him. It just didn't go that way this time, and I really wish it would have."
Desiree Young echoed the sentiments of the missing boy's father, stating she, too, feels guilty as a parent.
"I think that all of us in this case that's close to Kyron, all of us feel guilty to a certain degree," she said. "I feel guilty I wasn't here to protect him. And that's our job is to protect our son, and I feel like I failed in that."
Although Terri Moulton Horman has not been named a suspect by police in the disappearance of the boy, both Kaine Horman and his ex-wife, Desiree Young, have said they suspect her of having something to do with their son's disappearance. Both were interviewed by Willamette Week.
Kaine Horman commented on the alleged plot when the paper asked him how he felt knowing he was the one who had rought Terri Horman into the family.
"I feel responsible. I feel guilty," he said. "It's my job to protect him. It's my job to be there for him. I was there for him and someone got past and got him on my watch. I'm very upset about it. I'm very emotional about it. It's not right. It shouldn't have happened. We all trusted her. I feel partly responsible.
"In a weird way, I almost wish that her plot that she originally put in place would have gone through, because he would still be here."
The mentioned plot was laid out in divorce documents in which Kaine Horman claims detectives told him his wife tried to hire a landscaper to kill him. The alleged plot was the basis of the restraining order that he obtained against his wife.
He also told the paper that he lives every day with the guilt over having failed to protect his son.
"I'm not saying I feel directly responsible for it, but I feel really guilty about it," he said. "And I wish there was anything I could do to change places with him in any way, shape or form."
Kaine Horman said he's trying to turn that guilt into fuel to help find his son.
"I would do anything. I would give anything, and I always would. Up to this point, I have always been there in that capacity.
"Anything bad that happens to him, I wish I could shoulder it for him, (that) I could take it away from him. I wish it would come to me instead of him. It just didn't go that way this time, and I really wish it would have."
Desiree Young echoed the sentiments of the missing boy's father, stating she, too, feels guilty as a parent.
"I think that all of us in this case that's close to Kyron, all of us feel guilty to a certain degree," she said. "I feel guilty I wasn't here to protect him. And that's our job is to protect our son, and I feel like I failed in that."